UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 10
Number 6
February 9, 2005

Editor: Joseph Trainor

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STRANGE EARTH TREMOR RATTLES MELBOURNE

An earth tremor measuring an estimated 1.3 on the
Richter scale rattled the west end of Melbourne, one of
Australia's largest cities, during the early morning hours
of Tuesday, February 1, 2005. But the shock wasn't
recorded on any seismographs.

"A lightning bolt may be behind reports of an earth
tremor in Melbourne early this morning."

"The earth may have moved for residents, but experts
say they did not feel a thing."

"Geoscience Australia, the national body which
measures earthquakes, said there was no evidence of an
earth tremor in Melbourne, despite radio reports of one
this morning."

"A spokesman for electrical supplier Powercor said
the company's theory is that the rumblings, reported to
have happened about 3:08 a.m., might have something to do
with a lightning bolt that struck a power pole in Melton,
in Melbourne's" west end.

"The lightning blew the 6-meter (20-foot) pole and an
attached transformer to bits, leaving nothing more than a
stump, the spokesman said."

"'If the nature of what's left of our power pole is
anything to go by--it's stuffed, it's just a stump--then
it could've been that.'"

"Asked how the impact could have travelled so far
across Melbourne, the spokesman said, 'I'm fascinated by
that!'"

"Geoscience Australia said it was possible a sonic
boom caused the shock."

"Given the large number of residents who reported
feeling a rumbling shortly after 3 a.m., a Geoscience
Australia spokesman said it appeared something had
occurred but no one was sure what."

"'There's no doubt something happened,' he said."

"He said a small localised tremor may have occurred,
affecting about 20 kilometers (12 miles) and measuring
1.3" on the Richter scale "in magnitude."

"The shaking also could have been caused by a sonic
boom from a low-flying, high-speed aircraft."

However, an Australian "Defence Department spokesman
said he was unaware if any planes were flying over
Melbourne last night but would investigate."

"Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Terry Ryan
said there was no sound of thunder or lightning in
Melbourne last night."

"Residents have been calling Melbourne radio stations
ABC and 3AW, saying they felt a tremor in the middle of
the night."

"A 3AW spokesman said the station had received
'overwhelming' numbers of calls from right across
Melbourne," the largest city in Australia's Victoria
state, "to as far southwest as Geelong, Vic." (See the
Australian newspaper Herald-Sun for February 2, 2005,
"Bolt may have triggered tremor." Many thanks to Nathan
Lockhart for this newspaper article.)

(Editor's Note: The weird tremor was just the beginning
of Melbourne's problems. Keep reading...)

SUMMER STORM DEVASTATES SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA

The storm appeared without warning. On Tuesday,
February 1, 2005, at 1:40 p.m., "it was 36 degrees Celsius
(100 degrees Fahrenheit)," a UFO Roundup reader in
Melbourne reported, "You could stand in the sun and feel
your skin sizzling.. Within one-and-a-half hours, it had
fallen to 23 degrees Celsius (69 degrees Fahrenheit). By
9 p.m. that night, it was down to 13 degrees Celsius (33
degrees Fahrenheit. By the end of Wednesday (February 2,
2005), we had 31 continuous hours of rain, and the
temperature never topped 13 degrees Celsius."

According to The Age newspaper, "Melbourne has never
seen the like of it. A city notorious for its mercurial
meteorology was brought to a standstill Wednesday by a
history-making, record-breaking storm."

"The biggest downpour since records began in 1856
closed airports and roads, played havoc with public
transport, cut power to 120,000 homes, dumped summer snow
on ski resorts."

"A summer storm low-pressure system dumped something
like three months' worth of rain on the city in 31 hours.
The weather bureau reported that the 24-hour rain total at
9 a.m. yesterday (Wednesday, February 2, 2005) was a
record 120.2 millimeters (12.0 centimeters or 5 inches--
J.T.). But it had been raining for seven hours before
that, drowning the city in almost a quarter--23 percent--
of its annual rainfall."

"Police and State Emergency Services (SES) crews
spent the day searching the swollen Skeleton Creek near
Hoppers Crossing after reports that a teenaged boy might
have been swept away. Residents reported hearing a scream
and seeing a boy clinging to a bridge at Tarneit."

"'It all happened pretty quickly, there was not much
that we could do,' said resident Kate Payne, 'One minute
he was there, and the next he wasn't...that was the last
we saw of him.'"

"A 10-year-old girl and a motorist were in hospital
last night after being seriously injured by falling
trees."

"Healesville girl Stephanie Chamorro is lucky to be
alive after a 15-meter (50-foot) gum tree crashed through
the roof of her bedroom, breaking her leg and pinning her
to the bed. It took SES and County Fire Authority workers
and hour to free her."

"At Russ Creek, near Ballarat," 200 kilometers (120
miles) west of Melbourne in Australia's Victoria state, "a
man was critically injured when high winds brought a tree
crashing down on his moving car at about 7 a.m. A Rural
Ambulance Service (RAS) spokesman said the man was taken
to Ballarat Base Hospital with critical injuries to his
head, pelvis and leg."

"A police helicopter rescued a man and a woman
trapped by floodwaters at Arthurs Creek, northeast of
Melbourne. Another person was plucked from a tree amid
floodwaters at Wattle Creek."

"The storm also caused transport chaos across
Melbourne. Police issued an unusual plea for people not
to come into the city unless it was necessary. Every one
of the city's 15 train lines was affected by the freak
conditions. Two lines, Frankston and Sandringham, were
still experiencing major difficulties on Wednesday night."

"Both Melbourne and Avalon airports were closed
because of flooded access roads. The outbound lane of
Tullamarine Freeway near the airport was turned into a
long traffic jam. Hundreds of would-be travellers sat in
their cars as their flights took off without them."

Mountainous seas were reported in the Bass Strait
between Melbourne and Australia's island-state of
Tasmania. "Massive seas about 4 a.m. in the Bass Strait
force the 194-meter (640-foot carferry) Spirit of Tasmania
I to turn back to Melbourne halfway through its voyage to
Devonport" in northern Tasmania.

The ferry "had to turn back after a great wave blew
out a window on the ship's bridge. The wave was 12 meters
(40 feet) above the water's surface."

In addition, "a 71-year-old sailor was rescued from
his dismasted yacht in Bass Strait."

"More than 200,000 Victorians lost electricity as
winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per
hour) brought trees down on power lines, said Energy
Minister Theo Theopharous."

"The storm also cut a swath through Melbourne's
beaches, tearing yachts from their moorings and throwing
them onto beaches. The Kerferd Road pier at Middle Park
was badly damaged by waves. Port Phillip Council staff
reported that Middle Park Beach was almost totally washed
away--several thousand cubic meters of sand disappeared,
leaving almost none above the high tide mark."

"The storm also brought February snow to alpine areas
just days after the resorts were warned about possible
brushfires."

"About 16,000 homes in southeastern Queensland were
without power at the height of the storm. The storms were
followed by a massive dust storm."

At their cattle station near Nindigully, Qlnd.,
readers Kristin and Todd Rogan reported, "First it was a
khaki haze on the horizon. Then, a bit later, it looked
like a wall of dust moving across the (Darlington) Downs--
a wall 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) high. Dingoes (wild
dogs--J.T.) were running away from it."

"Snow fell at the Brindabella (mountain) ranges and
at Thredbo and Perisher skie resorts in New South Wales,
with winds up to 133 kilometers per hour (80 miles per
hour). About 100,000 New South Wales homes and businesses
were without power. Three people were rescued from cars
trapped in floodwaters."

In New South Wales, "photos appeared in newspapers
Wednesday of large hailstones beside a ruler that looked
like three-dimensional asterixes. The hailstones were 4
centimeters (1.7 inches) and 9 centimeters (3.7 inches) in
diameter."

In Victoria state, the Maribyrnong River spilled over
its banks and flooded the Farmington Racecourse.

In Tasmania, "a tree fell on a train at Lilydale,"
120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Devonport, and "120
kilometer per hour winds tore the roof off the Launceston
Church Grammar School." (See The Age of Melbourne for
February 3, 2005. Many thanks to Jocelyn Ronaldson for
this newspaper article. Thanks also to Todd and Kristin
Rogan and other Australian readers for their additional
reports.)

RUSSIAN JET ANSWERS UFO ALERT ON BORDER

"Combat aircraft of Russia's Baltic Sea fleet were
rushed to the border with Lithuania on Wednesday," January
22, 2005, "to repel a possible violation by what turned
out to be an unnaturally thick and fast-moving cloud, the
RIA-Novosti News Agency reported, citing the Baltic
Fleet's press service."

"The press release said a Sukhoi Su-27 was vectored
into the area near Russia's Baltic Sea enclave of
Kaliningrad," located about 400 kilometers (250 miles)
north of Warsaw, Poland after radar spotted a large object
entering Russian airspace from Lithuania. However, the
(Russian) plane found nothing after reaching the border
area."

"The Baltic Fleet's Air Defense Command contacted
military officials in Lithuania and Poland later,
revealing that the intruder was actually a thick cloud
that was being driven by a strong wind."

"'Our fighter approached the trespasser to make it
land or else leave Russian airspace,' the press release
said, 'A closer examination showed that it was a cloud
instead of a light plane, and it was coming from the
territory of Lithuania,' the Baltic Fleet spokesman said."

"Lithuanian military spokesman Ricardas Uzelka said
Wednesday that Lithuanian authorities had no knowledge of
any incident on the border."

TOURISTS SAY A UFO WENT DOWN IN THE HIMALAYAS

"The rumour is also rampant in Kathmandu, the capital
of Nepal, and in other Nepali cities" such as Lalitpur,
Bhaktapur and Nawakot.

"According to the rumours, the (UFO) crash site may
be close to Mount Everest and is totally inaccessible from
either side. The rumour world is also speculating that
the Chinese military is actively working to reach the
crash site."

"It is also rumoured that the extraterrestrials are
not allowing anyone to go near the site."

"Unusual activities and strange tremors were felt all
over the Himalayan region last week from the India/Nepal
(south) side. The number of UFO activities has gone up
very heavily in recent days in this area" near Mount
Everest. "And no one really knows what is happening."

"It's possible that the crash was nothing but a
Chinese spacecraft. China has a number of secret military
projects in this area."

"According to UFO scientists, it's possible that the
underground UFO bases were damaged by the earth tremor
last week and some slight aftershocks or the big
earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia" on December 26, 2004 and
which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, causing
catastrophic tsunamis all around the Indian Ocean. (See
India Daily for January 31, 2005, "Rumour of a UFO crash
on Nepal/China border." Many thanks to Krishnari Bai
Dharapurnanda for this newspaper article.)

MYSTERY METEOR LIGHTS UP NIGHT SKIES OVER MADRID

"A spectacular 'fireball' meteor was seen falling in
the neighborhood of" two major airports in the vicinity of
Madrid, Spain's capital.

"Reports were received of a falling object near
Barajas international airport, about 4 kilometers (3
miles) from the large Torreon air base."

"Luis Serrano, spokesman for the emergency telephone
service in Madrid, said, 'We had three calls and referred
other calls reporting a large fireball before midnight on
Thursday," January 27, 2005.

"Witness Jose Antonio said, 'An enormous,
incandescent and very red ball gave a tremendous flash and
then went out in a few seconds.'"

Spanish Air Force "officers at Torreon, which was
once a U.S. Air Force base, have refused to comment."
(See the Agence France Presse report for January 30, 2005.
Many thanks to Jim Hickman, executive director of Skywatch
International, for this news report.)

LUMINOUS UFOs SEEN NEAR SCARBOROUGH, UK

"A series of moving bright lights was spotted in the
sky off Scarborough," North Yorkshire, "cementing claims
that the (UK's) East Coast is the UFO capital of Europe."

"Pat Glenwright of Grange Avenue saw the lights dart
around the sky at 4:40 p.m. yesterday (Monday, January 31,
2005)."

"She said, 'There were about 14, so it definitely
wasn't an aeroplane. They were flying in a group, and it
looked from here they were the size of light bulbs.'"

"A friend added, 'They were bright and very high up.
It was very noticeable.'"

"'They were moving from right to left and looked as
though they were heading (north) towards Whitby.'"

"In December (2004), Chris Parr of the British UFO
Hunters Group said the coastal area between Filey and
Scarborough was the hotspot for British UFO incidents."

"Filey UFO researcher Russ Kellett said there were
more recorded sightings of UFOs in Filey and along the
East Coast than anywhere in the country." (See the
British newspaper Scarborough Today for February 1, 2005,
"Bright lights spotted in sky." Many thanks to Robert
Fischer for this newspaper article.)

AMBER UFO SIGHTED OVER SANTA ROSA, ARGENTINA

On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 9:45 p.m.,
eyewitnesses in Santa Rosa, the capital of Argentina's La
Pampa province, "saw a UFO crossing the skies of the
pampas (prairie in the USA--J.T.). The UFO was yellowish-
brass in color and moved from southeast to northeast some
30 degrees over the horizon."

"The object was recorded during part of its transit
by CIUFOS La Pampa," a local UFO research group.

"Subsequently, another object was detected some 35
degrees over the horizon toward the west, following a
north-south trajectory. After moving along at a constant
luminosity, the object unexpectedly increased its size for
30 seconds, as in the earlier case, before vanishing
completely."

FLASHING RED-AND-WHITE UFO HOVERS OVER OTTAWA

On Sunday, January 30, 2005, at 5:30 p.m., eyewitness
J.E. reported, "As I was preparing supper, I noticed a
bright, red-and-white flashing light in the sky outside my
kitchen window. I called my husband to come and see. So
we went outside, and my neighbour was walking by. I
called her over and asked her to look at it. She was
like, 'Oh, my God! What is that!?'"

"My husband kept saying it was an airplane, but
airplanes don't sit in one spot like that."

"It was very bright, white-and-red flashing lights,"
she added, "It sat in one spot over Ottawa (Canada's
capital--J.T.) for three minutes. It was as high as an
airplane but every silent. The evening was dark, and the
skies were clear that night."

The UFO "was a hundred times brighter than any star.
Then, as we watched, it started moving toward the
northwest slowly, then it was gone. It was nowhere in
sight, just the stars."

"We started stating again it was a helicopter or an
airplane, since we live close to the (MacDonald-Cartier
International) airport, and incoming/outgoing air traffic
flies right over our house. It was very unfamiliar and
nothing like what would be coming from the Ottawa
airport."

"It was bright red and white, the shape looking to be
oval, as well. The lights kept going very fast around it.
The red was brighter than the white and sparkled in the
clear sky. The speed as I watched it was about 30
kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour), and then it was
gone." (Email Form Report)

AMBER UFO SIGHTED IN HILLSBOROUGH, N.J.

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 10:58 p.m., Stu P.
was outdoors at his home in Hillsborough, New Jersey when
he noticed something strange in the sky, approaching from
the northeast.

"It was a small moving amber light which I saw from
the highest point of my view, southwest across the sky,
for about four seconds, hovered for about one-tenth of a
second, and then changed direction about 30 to 45 degrees
to the south."

"Amber color, shape too far away to be easy to see.
It just looked like a dot. The only thing that could go
that fast and then stop to change direction could be
falling space junk that would burn up at first, and then
change shape, this would change the air-flow over the
object, making it change direction. But I'm pretty sure
it was a UFO. I was looking up at the sky at a 45-degree
angle, and it went through my whole view of the sky (about
half the sky--S.P.) in about two seconds." (Email Form
Report)

FAMILY SPOTS A UFO OVER KELSEYVILLE, CALIFORNIA

On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 8:30 p.m., Leslie
Roberts reported, "My husband was out on our deck, smoking
a cigarette" in Kelseyville, California (population 2,928)
"He was facing Mount Konocti, which we were at the eastern
side of. He noticed a very bright light hovering over the
south side of the mountain. He yelled for me to come see.
I, who do not believe in UFOs, did not want to go out
there to see what I figured was a plane or a satellite.
He was excited and insisted that I come. So I went
outside to see what it was."

"At first I thought it had to be a very bright star,
but, as I stood there, it began to rise in altitude. I
was amazed to say the least. By this instant, our 17-
year-old daughter, her boyfriend and our 12-year-old son
also came watching too."

"I noticed that it was moving, which frightened my
12-year-old. He ran, tripping on the entrance to our
house. We stood and watched as the light changed from a
bright white to flashing blue and red lights and turned
towards us, coming right over our house. It was so close
that we could make out the shape of the vehicle."

"It was sort of shaped like a diamond at the front
but also long and cylindrical. It made absolutely no
noise. It passed over our heads and headed in an eastern
direction. We watched as it went farther away, and then
it just disappeared."

"My son...was so frightened. I had to assure him
that they were not coming back to hurt him." The UFO was
"about 500 feet (150 meters) above us. Cannot estimate
speed but can say it moved slowly enough for us to see it
clearly. When it headed away, though, at some point it
all at once moved so fast it just disappeared. I reported
it to the police department."

Kelseyville, Cal. is just south of Clear Lake on
Highway 175, located about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north
of San Francisco. (Email Form Report)

ICE CHUNK FALLS FROM SKY IN LEOMINSTER, MASS.

"A chunk of ice, believed to be frozen waste from an
airplane's lavatory, smacked into the top of a
Massachusetts woman's car."

"Nina Gambone of Leominster, Mass. (population
41,303) said the incident happened last week."

"Gambone said the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) confirmed the source of the ice chunk. However, the
FAA couldn't trace it to any particular airline."

"No one was injured, but it looks like Gambone will
be stuck with the repair bill."

Leominster is on Routes 2 and 13, approximately 5
miles (8 kilometers) south of Fitchburg, which has long
been "the UFO Capital of Massachusetts." (See the WJAR-TV
Channel 10 news broadcast for February 1, 2005, "Frozen
waste from plane smashes car." Many thanks to Mary Lou
Jones-Drown for this news report.)

(Editor's Comment: Like its neighbor Fitchburg,
Leominster has been plagued by UFO sightings and Fortean
phenomena for ages. Blocks of ice have been falling out
of the sky in that area since the days of the Pilgrims.)

LOST "HYBORIAN AGE" CITY DISCOVERED IN IRAN

"Iranian archaeologists have unearthed over 600,000
intact earthenware pottery and other artifacts in a newly-
discovered 6,000-year-old habitation near the Halil-Rud
River cultural area, where the ancient site of Jiroft is
located, the director of the archaeological team working
in the area announced on Sunday," January 30, 2005.

"'Our team has discovered a great number of intact
pottery and a large amount of shards, the volume of which
reaches one meter (3 feet, 3 inches) in height in some
areas,' David Abyan said."

"The team recently discovered a 6,000-year-old
habitation with more than 800 cells (rooms) in the Barez
Mountains east of the Halil-Rud River in southern Kerman
province."

"'Glazed in crimson and tan, the pottery was created
in various shapes, some with spouts, and a special
technique was employed in making the vases,' Abyan said."

"'The great amount of earthware indicates that
pottery-making was the main occupation of the people
living in the region, and they exported their products to
other areas,' he said."

"The nearby prehistoric village is located at a
height of 250 meters (825 feet) with 2-to-4-square meter
cells. The habitation is Iran's most ancient rock
residence ever discovered."

"The Jiroft region was one of the first places in
Iran where civilization and urbanization were established
about 5,000 years ago."

"Many Iranian and foreign experts see the findings
near Jiroft as signs of a civilization as great as Sumer."

"Iranian archaeologist Yusef Majidzadeh believes that
Jiroft was the ancient city of Aratta, which was described
as a great civilization in ancient Sumerian cuneiform
inscriptions."

Texas author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), in his
Conan of Cimmeria stories published in Weird Tales,
described "the lost empire of Turan," whose major cities
were located close to some of Iran's most productive
archaeological sites. According to Howard, Turan
flourished during "the Hyborian Age," the period
immediately following the last Pleistocene glaciation,
reaching its pinnacle of power between 8,500 and 7,000
B.C.

The Jiroft region is about 600 kilometers (360 miles)
southeast of Tehran, the capital of Iran. (See the
Iranian newspaper Al-Mehr for January 31, 2005, "6,000-
year-old site in southeastern Iran yields a large cache of
earthware." Many thanks to Ayesha al-Khatabi and Kufa
Yildaz for this newspaper article.)

UFOLOGIST KENNY YOUNG DEAD IN OHIO

Kenny Young, 38, producer/director of the Cincinnati,
Ohio cable TV show UFO Updates Live and a long-time
contributor to UFO Roundup, died on Monday, January 31,
2005 following a long illness.

"Kenneth Harold Young, a graphics designer and
producer for the Telecommunications Board of North
Kentucky died Monday of complications of leukemia at Mercy
Anderson Hospital. He was 38."

"'Scarcely a person could watch TV without seeing
some of Kenny's graphics work,' said John Stephenson of
Fort Mitchell, Ky., former superintendent of public
instruction for northern Kentucky and former director of
the Telecommunications Board Community Program Center."

"Born in Cincinnati (Ohio) on December 28, 1966, Mr.
Young graduated in 1984 from Howard High School, where he
was active with the video center. He worked for the
Community Program Center, which produces religion, public-
access and government programs for Kenton, Campbell,
Boone, Grant, Gallatin, Owen and Pendleton counties."

"He had a passion for UFOs and produced several
programs recreating sightings. He also played the piano
at nursing homes. And he loved his dog, Boo. 'Everywhere
he went, he took that dog with him,' Stephenson said."

Kenny is survived by "his mother, Carol Waller Young
Boettger, of Anderson; a brother, Gary McCarty, of Laurel,
Miss., and a sister, Cindy Porter, of Florence, Ky."

The funeral was held Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 2
p.m. at the Charles and Grubbs Funeral Home in Florence,
Ky. Interment was in Walker Cemetery."

Kenny's colleagues in the field of ufology reminisced
about his outstanding career.

"During 21 years of his sterling commitment to
ufology, Kenny was always as good as they get," radio host
Jeff Rense said, "His reports were rock-solid and
outstanding in their collection of data, he jumped to no
conclusions, and he always conducted himself with absolute
integrity--and a special kindness--which everyone could do
well to emulate."

"I met Kenny back in 1994, after I got back into
research after a two-year sabbatical," Roy Schaeffer said,
"I didn't even have to introduce myself to him. He knew
who I was and offered me a warm welcome back into the
field at the local cable-access show out of Cincinnati. A
small group of us who were affiliated with the show worked
with another Ohio group. It was headed by the late Pat
Packard and called Advocates for Scientific Knowledge.
After Pat's untimely death, we changed the name to Tri-
States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (T.A.S.K.)
Kenny was named our public relations director. One of the
most celebrated cases of T.A.S.K. was the 1996-1997 UFO
flap in southern Ohio."

Southern Ohio section director of MUFON, Donnie
Blessing, remarked, "Back in 1999, when I first contacted
Kenny, I had no idea what an impact the group was going to
have on my life. I had Kenny's Website and contacted him.
My thoughts were then that he would not give me a minute
of his time. Instead, he told me he could use some help
with his research. I happily accepted and, for the next
five years, I was taken on the journey of my life. We
used to kid each other when we had a hot UFO case by
saying, 'Keep your seat belt on, we are in for a ride.'"

One of Kenny's most famous cases "was the Screaming
Woman case of Morehead, Kentucky in November of 2003,"
Blessing added, "He never ceased to amaze me how he could
take the raw footage we had taped and turn it into a high-
quality video production. The world has lost a true hero
in the UFO field, and I shall never forget the fun and
hard work we had to help make him that hero."

(Editor's Note: For more on the Morehead case, see UFO
Roundup, volume 8, number 47 for December 10, 2003,
"Kentucky UFO sighting may have included an abduction,"
page 1.)

"Kenny first began contributing reports to us back in
1996, the glory days of T.A.S.K.," UFO Roundup editor
Joseph Trainor recalled, "For nearly ten years, Kenny was
a mainstay of the newsletter. I relied on him for
coverage of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and southern Illinois,
and he never disappointed. He always turned in good,
crisp, readable, detailed copy on the many UFO sightings
in his area. Not only has ufology lost one of its best
investigators, but I think American journalism has lost
one of its great unrecognized reporters. Kenny will be
sorely missed by all of us here at the Roundup." (See the
Cincinnati Enquirer for February 3, 2005, "Kenneth Young,
38, TV graphics designer." Many thanks to Jim Danvers for
this newspaper article.)

SHIRLEY FICKETT, MAINE'S "FIRST LADY OF UFOLOGY" DEAD AT AGE 82

"Shirley Cardin Fickett, 82, a local artist, passed
away on Wednesday, February 2, 2005, after a long
illness."

"She attended Portland (Maine) schools and married
the late Richard E. Fickett. They resided in the North
Deering area of Portland."

"She and her husband owned and operated the Driftwood
Art Gallery and Gift Shop before retiring with her husband
to Ellsworth, Maine. The Gallery was a place where local
artists, both young and old, were welcome to display their
work and receive positive and enthusiastic support from
Shirley."

"Shirley was also very active in psychic phenomena
and UFO research. She liked to have gatherings at the Art
Gallery, where topics of the unexplained would be heard
and discussed. People were drawn to her knowledge of this
unusual subject matter. She was a freelance writer and
had many articles published in magazines and newspapers."

"She is survived by four children: Sharon Cleaves of
Windham, Richard Flickett of Windham, Randall Flickett of
Auburn and Leanne Brainerd of Cumberland, nine
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Also
surviving are two sisters, Pat Dunbar of Sullivan and
Donna Jean Diphilippo of Windham, and two brothers,
Courtney Campbell of Ellsworth and Mike Harris of
Richmond."

Fortean investigator Loren Coleman said, "Shirley was
the Dean of Ufology in the Pine Tree State, Maine's answer
to Betty Hill. Mrs. Fickett wrote a widely-shared
document, 'The Maine UFO Encounter: Investigating Under
Hypnosis," about an expert physician/hypnotist who
explores the lost-time experience after a UFO's beam of
light hits his car. The Dr. Herbert Hopkins/David
Stephens case included Men in Black (MIB) and lost-time,
and it became the case most people associated with
(Shirley) Fickett's name. Fickett investigated others of
the state's UFO encounters as an associate of the
International UFO Bureau." (See the Portland, Me. Press-
Herald for February 3, 2005, "Shirley Cardin Fickett, 82."
Many thanks to Loren Coleman for this newspaper article.)

BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN IN SOUTHEASTERN MASS.

On Saturday, February 5, 2005, at 9:10 p.m., the male
eyewitness was putting out overnight feed for the animals
on his farm in Rehoboth, Massachusetts when he heard "the
noise of a whole squadron of helicopters."

Going out in the farmyard, he saw "a formation of
black military-style helicopters heading southeast toward
Mount Hope Bay. There were six or seven of them. They
looked like (UH-60) Blackhawks. One of them came from
Providence (Rhode Island, i.e. the southwest--J.T.) and
flew right over the farmhouse. Real low. Very low and
very loud. This helicopter joined the others, and they
flew over Bad Luck Pond on their way to the bay."

The black helicopters "were still circling at the
southern horizon at 9:45 p.m. They were right over
Somerset. They looked like they were on patrol or
maneuvers or something. They were still circling at ten
o'clock. This is the first time we've seen the black
helicopters here in a while. Something must be up. When
the FBI was looking for terrorists in Boston" four weeks
ago, "there were jets flying over all evening."

Earlier that afternoon, a North Seekonk woman saw
"two black helicopters flying very low over Beckwith
School and the Palmer River area just north of Route 118.
They were military...(UH-60) Blackhawks, I think, and they
were flying side by side towards Attleboro. This was late
afternoon, about 4 p.m. A half hour later, I saw a single
black helicopter flying a bit higher. It was heading
northeast but not on a normal flight path. I think maybe
it was heading for Devens."

(Editor's Note: Located in Ayer, Mass., Fort Devens was
closed in 1992, but has since become a regional facility
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A
"federal reserve prison," sometimes called "Camp Hillary,"
is located on the grounds of the former military post.)

On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 7:10 a.m., the same
male Rehoboth witness was outside, feeding the farm
animals, when he again "heard a tremendous noise. It
sounded like dozens of helicopters just over the (western)
horizon. I listened to this for ten minutes or so. Then
I went to fetch my 12 X 50 millimeter binoculars and got
up in the hayloft. I looked west towards Providence, R.I.
and I saw two of them. Definitely military, black as the
ace of spades. They looked like they were flying up to
Worcester (Massachusetts)."

UFO Roundup correspondent Mary Lou Jones-Drown
reported, "People who have seen these helicopters think
they may be protecting the electrical generating plant at
Brayton's Point in Fall River, Mass. This is an important
link in the country's power grid. Another possibility is
the big (oil) tank farms on the Narragansett Bay shore in
Riverside (a section of East Providence, R.I.--J.T.)."
(Many thanks to Mary Lou Jones-Drown for these reports.)

(Editor's Note: Rehoboth was the site of numerous black
helicopter overflights during the summer months of 2003
and 2004.)

DEAD GEESE FALL FROM THE SKY IN KEIZER, OREGON

"Geese are literally falling from the sky in and
around Keizer," Oregon (population 32,204), "and wildlife
experts don't know why."

"About 150 Canada geese were found dead Friday,"
January 28, 2005, "at a private pond off Wheatland Road
owned by Morse Brothers Rock Products in rural Marion
County. Thirty or so other dead birds were discovered
three months ago near Staats Lake, a private lake in
Keizer."

"State wildife officials visited both sites to
investigate. The officials suspect that the birds may
have died from something they ate, but it doesn't appear
that anything found in the ponds or the lake killed the
birds."

"'Reports of one bird here or one over there is not
cause for alarm,' said Will High, wildlife biologist for
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 'But when you
have 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 of them all of a sudden die in
one day, well, that's just not normal.'"

"Only cackling Canada geese, a small subspecies of
the larger Canada goose, were affected, High said. Other
varieties of birds, including ducks, gulls and three other
species of geese, were alive and well in both bodies of
water."

"The dead birds were found floating in the water.
They appeared to swim with their heads under water, High
said. Others were found on dry ground lying on their
stomachs with their wings flared out."

"The goose carcasses have been sent to the National
Wildife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin to be tested.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency
that regulates migratory birds, also was notified."

"Five years ago, large numbers of dead geese were
discovered in Staats Lake. The Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife investigated the problem but couldn't track
down the cause. Tests showed that the birds weren't dying
of infection or disease; the results were inconclusive but
hinted the birds died from something they ate."

"Wildlife officials said that in recent weeks, large
numbers of dead geese also have been found in Monmouth
(population 7,741) and McMinnville (population 26,500).
They don't know if the incidents are related."

Keizer is on River Road 3 miles (5 kilometers) north
of Salem. McMinnville was the site of a famous UFO
sighting in 1950. (See the Salem, Ore. Statesman-Journal
for February 2, 2005, "Geese die in droves in Keizer--
Experts baffled." Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for
this newspaper article.)

TENNESSEE WEREWOLF GOES ON THE PROWL

"I live in the eastern mountain region of Tennessee
and work second shift at a factory in Dayton (population
6,180), a town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, with a
mountain (Walden's Ridge--J.T.) in between," Patricia Law
of Pikeville, Tenn. (population 1,781) told the British
magazine Fortean Times. "I usually don't start for home
until at least 12:30 a.m. We don't all get out at the
same time, so sometimes I'm the only one on the highway
(Route 30--J.T.) coming over the mountain."

While driving home to Pikeville one January night,
around 1 a.m., Patricia wrote, "I was coming across the
mountain." As she passed through the four-mile (6-
kilometer) stretch between Cumberland Springs and Morgan
Springs, "there are quite a few houses along the way, and
a lot of them have outside lights on all night long, so
it's not pitch black."

"Anyway, I was coming down a straight stretch of
highway when I saw a man on the side of the road on my
left walking toward me. He was wearing a light-colored
shirt with dark pants. As I got closer to him, he
suddenly turned his back toward me and bent over. I
slowed down quite a bit and went toward the center of the
highway as I was about to pass him."

"When I got close to him, I saw that this person was
now a huge dog, and he peered around to look at me as I
passed. This 'thing' had a long snout and large teeth
like a dog or wolf and was sort of grinning at me."

"I passed it and tried to look at it in my rear-view
mirror but couldn't see anything. I was flabbergasted and
I've gone over and over in my mind ever since, trying to
figure out what I actually saw."

The Dayton area has a long history of involvement
with the paranormal.

"Dayton is most famous as the site of the infamous
'Monkey Trial' of 1925," UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor
explained. "On March 21, 1925, the state of Tennessee
passed a law, making it a crime to teach evolution in the
schools. Dr. George Rappelyea persuaded high school
science teacher John T. Scopes to test the new law in
court. Scopes admitted to teaching evolution in his
general science class. He was arrested by the Rhea County
sheriff. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent
its legal counsel, Arthur Garfield Hays, to defend Scopes.
When former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
offered to prosecute the case for Rhea County, two famous
American lawyers, Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone,
volunteered to assist Hays in the defense. It was THE
trial of the 1920s. But, in the end, Scopes was found
guilty and fined $100. It became illegal to teach
evolution in Tennessee."

"Ironically, nearby Cumberland Springs is one of the
richest fossil sites in the state, with everything from
trilobites of the Cambrian Period to giant dragonflies of
the Pennsylvanian Period preserved in its limestones."

"Morgan Springs, seven miles (11 kilometers)
northwest of Dayton, was a sacred site to the Ani-Yupuya,
also known as the Cherokee Indians. According to the
legend, the waters used to arch skyward in a single column
at midnight--a sign of the healing spirit within the
spring."

"Two miles (3.2 kilometers) from Dayton, on Blythe
Ferry Road, is Hiwassee Island. The state guide informs
us that 'it was once the home of Oo-loo-te-ka, the
Cherokee who adopted young Sam Houston (first president of
the Republic of Texas from 1837 to 1841--J.T.) as his son.
Oo-loo-te-ka (Ani-Yupuya for Puts Away the War Drum--J.T.)
was chief of a band of about 300, and his island village
was large...Young Houston, tiring of farm life, first ran
off to the Cherokee village in 1809, when he was about
sixteen. Altogether he spent three years with the
Cherokee, hunting with them, learning their language,
playing their games...The Indians named him Co-lon-nah
(Ani-Yupuya for Raven --J.T.)...Later he made numerous
trips to Washington on behalf of the Cherokee.'"

"On Hiwassee Island are several very ancient pre-
Columbian mounds. They weren't erected by the Ani-Yupuya.
Oolooteka told Sam Houston that they were the work of the
Ot-ne-yarheh, The Old People Who Left, a mysterious
prehuman race. In 1937, a few mounds were excavated by
the Works Progress Administration (WPA). 'Beneath were
remains of a prehistoric Indian culture,' including
artifacts, pottery and skeletal remains. Strangest of the
finds was the stone carving of a raven." (See Fortean
Times No. 193 for March 2005, "Tennessee dog-man," page
75. Also the book Tennessee: A Guide to the State, The
Viking Press, New York, N.Y., 1939, pages 362 to 365.)

From the UFO Files...

1946: NAZIS IN SPACE

On an evening in late November 1924, a knock sounded
on the door of a cramped apartment in Munich. Graduate
student Rudolf Hess went to answer it. As he opened the
door, he saw a couple standing there--a white-haired
elderly lady and a man in a dark trenchcoat, scarf and
slouch hat. The man lifted his head slightly, letting the
hallway lamp spill beneath the hatbrim and illuminate his
features.

Hess let out a gasp of astonishment. "Grandmaster!"

The stranger smiled. Yes, it was the Grandmaster
himself--Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff (birth name: Adam
Rudolf Glauer--J.T.), the founder of the mystical Thule
Gesellschaft (Thule Society), back in Germany for the
first time in five years. He had been forced to flee to
Switzerland in February 1919 after one of his
acquaintances, Count Anton von Arco-Valley, assassinated
the governor of Bavaria. (For more on Anton, see UFO
Roundup, volume 9, number 5 for February 4, 2004, "1919:
Dance of the Assassin," page 12.)

The self-styled Baron von Sebottendorff was Germany's
foremost mystic. Born in 1875, the son of a railroad
engineer from Hoyerswerda, Sebottendorff was an
enthusiastic disciple of Madame Blavatsky (birth name:
Elena Petrovna von Hahn). For many years he had traveled
in the Middle East, studying Sufi wisdom with the Bektashi
dervishes and joining the Masonic Order of Constantine.
Returning to Germany in 1912, he had helped found the
mystic Germanen Orden and, a few years later, his own
group, the Thule Gesellschaft.

"It's good to see you again, Rudolf," the baron said,
ushering his companion into the dimly-lit apartment. "I
don't believe you know Madame Orsic."

"Only by reputation," Hess replied, barely able to
contain his excitement. Maria Orsic was the most famous
medium in the Balkans. Surely tonight's magickal working
would be one to remember.

One year earlier, Dietrich Eckart (1868-1923) had
died. Eckart, the brilliant but erratic author who had
translated Ibsen's plays into German and had published the
magazine Auf gut Deutsch (Translated: In Good German), had
served as Thule's "minister of information." It was
Eckart who had introduced Sebottendorff to the Austrian
orator who was rapidly becoming the rising star of the
volkisch movement--Adolf Hitler.

On his deathbed, Eckart had told a small circle of
Thule disciples, "Hitler will dance, but it is I who plays
the tune. Do not mourn for me, for I will have influenced
history more than any other German."

Tonight Sebottendorff wanted to make contact with his
deceased friend. To accomplish this, he had returned to
Munich under a fake passport and with Maria Ostric in tow.
In no time at all, Sebottendorff, Hess, Dr. Ernst Schulte-
Strathaus and the other Thulists were joining hands around
the black-draped table, while Maria summoned her envoys
from "the spirit world."

Hess found it a bit unnerving to watch Maria Ostric's
eyeballs roll back, showing only whites, and to see her
slumping backward in her chair, mouth agape. But
Sebottendorff had seen spookier shit than this during his
sojourn in the Middle East, and he smiled in satisfaction
as the familiar baritone voice of Dietrich Eckart emerged
from the medium's open mouth.

Midway through the reading, "Eckart" announced that
he was obliged to give way to "someone with an important
message." Then a weird melodious voice came through,
identifying itself as "the Sumi, dwellers of a distant
world, which orbits the star Aldebaran in the
constellation you call Taurus the Bull."

Hess and Dr.Schulte-Strathaus blinked at each other.
Aliens from space!?

"The Sumi" explained that they were a humanoid race
who had briefly colonized Earth 500 million years ago.
The ruins of ancient Larsa, Shurrupak and Nippur in Iraq
had been built by them. Sumi surviving "the great flood
of Ut-napishtim" (the Deluge of Noah's Ark--J.T.) had
become the ancestors of "the Aryan race."

Sebottendorff was skeptical. He asked for proof.
Still in a trance, Maria scribbled several lines of queer-
looking marks. "These proved to be written in Sumerian,
the language of the founders of the oldest Babylonian
culture."

Flash forward to February 1945.

Hess, once deputy Fuehrer of Adolf Hitler's Third
Reich, is now Churchill's prisoner in UK. Baron
Sebottendorff, now 70 and supposedly "retired," is back at
his old haunts in Istanbul. What's left of the Thule
Gesellschaft now works for a new "Lord of Atlantis," the
SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler.

At an SS base near Prague (now capital of the Czech
Republic--J.T.), a strange-looking rocket rises on five
pillars of flame from its concrete launch pad. If the
Battle of the Bulge was Hitler's last throw of the dice,
then the launch of the Ostara was Himmler's.

The Ostara (named for the ancient German goddess of
the dawn--J.T.) was the brainchild of Himmler's most
trusted aide, SS-Brigadefuehrer Hans Kammler, the
Schriever-Miethe rocket design team from Peenemunde, the
Thule Gesellschaft and the equally-mystical Vril Society.
This Haunebu-3 saucer "had a diameter of 71 meters and
could reach a speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour (25,000
miles per hour) with a range of eight weeks and carried a
crew of nine men."

Hurling this big vehicle into space was no small
feat. To do it, Kammler had his SS Department E-4 cobble
together a Rube Goldberg-style vehicle. Propelling the
saucer were two bolted-together A-9 rockets, with five A-
10 boosters behind them.
Indeed, the entire contraption never would've gotten off
the ground at all, if not for a revolutionary device
invented in the 1920s.

This was the Schumann Levitator. "A leading member
of the Vril (Society), Dr. W.O. Schumann pioneered the
development of electromagnetic fields through rotating
discs, and a prototype was constructed near Munich in
1922. Over the following decade, this research and
development led to an entire range of German flying
saucers based on the principle of anti-gravitational
levitation."

During World War II, "the Schumann group produced two
smaller saucers, the Vril-1 and 2, as fighters" while
Gruppe Kammler, or SS E-4, worked on its Haunebu
Flugeschiebe (Translated: Flying Disc) project.

By the beginning of 1945, though the Third Reich was
crumbling, SS E-4 saw that "seven craft of the Haunebu-2
type, one each of the other Haunebu types and 17 Vril-1
craft. In late 1944, the SS E-4 also designed the
Andromeda vessel," a cylindrical spacecraft "139 meters
(458 feet) in length and 30 meters (100 feet) high.
Powered by four 'Thule-Tachyonators' and four 'Schumann
Levitators,' this long-distance spaceship could transport
a Haunebu-2 and two Vril-1 saucers in its internal
hangars. This huge cigar-shaped mother ship and its
accompanying saucers were supposed to be responsible for
George Adamski's famous sighting in California in
(November) 1952."

Operating at low power, the Schumann Levitator "cut
the throw-weight" of the Ostara, allowing the A/9-A/10
array to hurl the saucer into Earth orbit at an altitude
of 500 kilometers (300 miles). Once in orbit, the
Ostara's crew dropped the twin A-9s and used their
Schumann device, powered by small nuclear batteries, to
push the saucer away from Earth.

While the Ostara had her shakedown cruise in space,
back on Earth, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
launched Operation Varsity, the crossing of the Rhine,
while Marshal Zhukov's Soviet (Russian) armies overran
East Prussia. With the Reich's lifespan reduced to weeks,
if not days, why had Himmler taken such an insane gamble?

Although never a member of Thule or Vril, Himmler was
a devoted occultist who, in 1923, joined Dr. Willibald
Hentschell's Artamen. This group "expressed an attitude
which saw cities as sinks of decadence and the land as the
real strength of a people."

In the Artamen, Himmler was exposed for the first
time to the scriptures of ancient India. He read the
Vedas and the Mahabharata and was particularly fond of the
Bhagavad Gita. During the drive to Auschwitz in July
1942, Himmler amused himself by reading a German
translation of the Gita, which he usually kept in his desk
at the office.

In his 1940 book, The Flight of Hanuman to Lanka,
Indian author C.N. Mehta discusses the vimanas, the UFOs
of ancient India. Mention of them is sprinkled throughout
the Vedas. "In his essay on the Rig-Veda, Professor H.L.
Hariyappa of Mysore University writes that in a distant
epoch 'gods came to the earth sometimes, and that it was
the privilege of some men to visit the immortals in
heaven.'"

"Another book from India--the Samaranagana
Sutradhara--contains a fantastic paragraph about the
distant past when men traveled in the air in skyships and
heavenly beings came down from the sky." Himmler was
fascinated with these tales of rishis (Hindu wizards--
J.T.) visiting Chandra (Earth's moon), Karktikeya (Mars)
and the small worlds circling Brahaspati (Jupiter) and
Sani (Saturn).

From SS aides who had been members of Thule, Himmler
had heard about the purported "alien contact" in 1924. So
the Ostara's mission seems clear enough--find these aliens
and persuade them to help the Reich against its enemies.

When a flyby of the moon turned up no trace of any
aliens, the Ostara continued on into space. According to
German author Norbert Juergen-Ratthofer, "after an eight-
and-a-half month voyage, the Haunebu III lands on Mars in
January 1946, only to find the deserted pyramid city and
'Face' (Cydonia--J.T.), signs of a bygone higher
civilization. 'What disappointment must these men have
felt, when they realized that all was in vain.'"

Returning to Earth in October 1946, the nine-man crew
of the Ostara found a world transformed. Germany was
divided and occupied. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and
other Nazi leaders were on trial in Nuremberg. Himmler
was dead--a suicide. He had been captured by British
troops on May 23, 1945 and had swallowed a capsule of
potassium chloride before he could be interrogated. He
had made certain that the deepest secrets of the SS died
with him.

The Ostara landed at Station 211 in Antarctica, in a
region of the Hoffman-Muhlig Mountains. The area was
called Neuschwabenland (German for New Swabia--J.T.), and
all during the war Himmler had been sending U-boats full
of German and Ukrainian settlers there.

But now the Nazi sanctuary was in danger. On
December 30, 1946, a U.S. Navy Martin Mariner seaplane
crashed in Antarctica. This tipped off the "Antarctic
Reich" to the threat of Operation High Jump, an Allied
task force commanded by Admiral Richard E. Byrd of the
U.S. Navy.

So the SS refugees undertook their last gamble. They
decided the launch the Andromeda, the large cylindrical
spacecraft built by Gruppe Kammler and Thule. According
to Juergen-Ratthofer, aboard the spaceship was an untested
device that would put the ship into a "trans-dimensional
canal," enabling it to achieve interstellar flight.

(Editor's Note: Kammler himself was last seen in
Oberammergau, Germany on April 6, 1945. It is not known
for certain if he died during the last days of the war in
Europe or if he somehow got to Antarctica.)

Thirty-two volunteers, all veterans of Himmler's
Waffen-SS, were selected for the flight. There was no
guarantee that the "Magnetapparat" star-drive would even
work. The Andromeda could easily get 5,000 kilometers
(3,000 miles) away from Earth. But what would happen when
they threw the switch? The cylindrical ship might
instantly explode, creating a momentary bright flash
visible from Earth's night side.

Even worse, it was strictly a one-way trip. The
Nazis were going to point the Andromeda at the star
Aldebaran, hit the switch and hope for the best. Even if
they made it across 68 light-years of space, there was no
way they'd be able to return. They'd never be able to
find Earth's sun among the myriads of stars.

What happened next is a mystery.

Three years later, a cylindrical UFO similar to the
Andromeda began to be seen. Ufologist Harold T. Wilkins,
in his book Flying Saucers Uncensored, wrote, "There is a
vast spindle-shaped or cigar-shaped, cylindrical space
ship of unknown origin, which was photographed over a
blast furnace in Hamilton, Ohio in 1950. It was also
'snapped' by a young woman taking pictures of ordinary
terrestrial objects at Hawthorne, California when it was
seen in the act of releasing satellite discs. It was seen
over Denham, in England, and, twelve hours later over
Sweden, in 1949, again releasing discs, which, at high
speed, flew off in opposite directions."

According to Henry Stevens, author of Hitler's Flying
Saucers, a U.S. Air Force fighter jet captured "gun-camera
film footage from Victorville, California taken on
February 2, 1953. It apparently shows a cylindrical
'Mothership' in flight."

Also in the early 1950s, "a classic cigar-shaped UFO"
was seen and photographed by Joe Ferriere in Woonsocket,
Rhode Island.

(Editor's Note: At the time of the Ferriere sighting,
your editor was a two-year-old living in Taunton,
Massachusetts, 14 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of
Woonsocket, R.I.)

Had the Andromeda returned to Earth? Or were alien
vessels disguising themselves as the Nazi ship while they
scouted out our planet?

In 1967, a German psychic again heard from the
mysterious Sumi. They assured the attendees at the seance
that the Andromeda had indeed made it to Aldebaran. The
crewmen were well-treated while "the Aldebaran regime then
dispatched an enormous interstellar armada consisting of
280 battle cruisers of various classes ranging from 1.5 to
6 kilometers (1 to 4 miles) in length and capable of
carrying between four and 810 flying saucers apiece.
Depending on its speed after emerging from the 'trans-
dimensional canal' (hyperspace) in the asteroid belt, this
armada is to arrive on Earth sometime between 1992 and
2005 to resume the Second World War."

Off-and-on channelled contacts with the Sumi has
provided us with a rough idea of how an Aldebarani star
fleet is organized--similar to a U.S. Navy task force.
The table below gives the alien ship classes and their USN
equivalents:

ALDEBARANI

EQUIVALENT

NupqukyukQaspilukAkuqnukNakyu

CarrierHeavy CruiserLight CruiserDestroyer

We have only the Sumi's word for it that the
Andromeda's crewmen were treated as guests upon their
arrival in the Aldebaran system. For all we know, the
ship was destroyed by vigilant Sumi spacecraft two minutes
after it emerged from hyperspace. Or the Earth ship might
have been boarded and its crew captured.

If that's the case, what might have happened to Hans
Kammler if he'd been on board? Kammler, the architect who
began his SS career designing the Nazi camp at Auschwitz-
Birkenau in southern Poland. Did he congratulate himself
on a successful escape from Earth, only to wind up an
exhibit in some alien zoo, crouched in a corner of the
cage--cold, naked, always hungry--gaped at by terrible
three-lobed eyes?

As bad as it sounds, it's still a kinder fate than
any deportee from Drancy or Westerbork met at that camp he
designed.

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